Perhaps it's only to maximise the strength while keeping the codes conveniently short. "Less than 2^-18" isn't that great, it's what only 64 bits or slightly less would give (8 bytes, 16 hex characters) It is potentially a perfect RNG, true randomness is happening there - God plays dice. So, someone somewhere must have had a nerdgasm.
It's not like they can tell much about how the system is designed. But anyway, the article tells all there is to it. Non-descript security system uses a very good hardware random number generator as a source for encryption/signing/whatever. It's like 10 RANDOMIZE TIMER 20 PRINT INT(RND(1)*6)+1 but better. Recent everyday CPUs may use thermal noise from built-in sensors instead.
Perhaps a good way to protect the screen is to put it "inside", open the phone like a laptop when you want to use it like a computer, else it looks and works like a dumbphone when folded. The first smartphone was like that (Nokia 9000, 1996)
I thought that in that movie, the aliens were an ancient civilization (apparently much wiser than ours) whose home planet is Earth. They evolved in the depth of the oceans, became an intelligent species and then a technological one. Later on, humanity is busy doing its mankind stuff (war, pillage etc.) but they're unaware of the deep sea "aliens", separated from us by kilometers of water rather than light-years of empty space.
My guess is $1000. It's where some desirable and uncommon high end stuff is priced (30" monitor, GTX Titan, Intel i7 5960X and Eizo monitors in general)
Run Gnome 2 / Mate on it with top and bottom panels, browser that still has a title bar. There's room to fit everything without making it feel busy, cramped. If a smaller 1440x1440 variant was made you would also have something about perfect to run a maximized browser without messing with scaling etc., which I guess is what most people do regardless of the monitor.
Didn't Firefox made their URL bar "dynamic" and shit before Google Chrome existed?, and had search in the URL bar before it itself existed (in the browser called Mozilla). That is enough. It's easy to go to google's site if you want google to guess what you are trying to type.
Chromebooks are laptops, so laptops are being replaced by laptops?
Sure, they're more crippled. Anyway, Firefox OS is about the same thing as Chrome OS, without requirement for a google account. Oh, and crap. Who cares if there's 100 million or 200 million or 300 million Firefox user, we will still use it. It's dying because it's not 500 million. Right.
But the family PC may be a Core 2 Duo alike at 2.4GHz or similar. The framerates are murdered. If you know what you're doing you can get away with only doubling that budget (low end mobo, Pentium and one 4GB stick)
I used to play Quake 1 200 years after it came out. The old glquake port still ran flawlessly, arbitrary resolution and you get to max out AA/AF and have instant loading times on any PC (jadd some gamma correction to see shit). What's more, the game is very worth playing. You need higher than 60Hz refresh to play it well. PC gaming has been through a 60Hz dark age, barely broken by a handful overpriced TN monitors.
There may be a non trivial issue if you take on severe exercise and then shortly ingurgitate a lot of water (distilled or poor in salts), which happens after you sweat a lot of electrolytes. But that'd be your own fault for being dumb. Some people do kill themselves with water poisoning, and that's not distilled water.
So much sense that the Xbox One is in fact a dual system, it has a hypervisor with one system for the apps, media, browsing, whatever and one system for the running game.
I'm torn. A PC costs about the price of a console or a bit more if you put an i5 in it (to be sure to meet game specs). But when last gen consoles were introduced a PC lasted about three years, or five if you let it be well outgrown by games. Now a PC lasts for a decade, I'd say easily 15 years if specced midrange. (a quad core with a big SSD, 8GB RAM and two free slots for adding another 16GB, room for making the storage 10x bigger, upgradeable to 10Gbe, sound card or DAC good enough for $5K speakers..)
The problem is when you have to throw away a PC that is a couple year too old for games (or more), but perfectly good for everything else. That sucks. And you could have a linux PC + a console instead of a Windows PC. With both options you lose freedom in order to gain freediom. Or the astrophysics option is a system with hypervisor, dual graphics card, KVM switch (or dual input monitor) and you run a desktop linux VM on one graphics card, desktop Windows VM on another. It is expensive, you need a high core CPU (I'd say FX 8350, 5820K or 5960X) and a Vt-d motherboard plus adequate case PSU fans etc.
I played the DOS games for the graphics. Lands of Lore, Dungeon Keeper, Doom, Descent, Indiana Jones, Dark Forces, The Dig, Full Throttle. I may end up having to assemble an old PC, have a CD of Windows 98 First Edition (ha!). Dosbox is slow and less straightforward.
There is cost and the mobiles SoCs and boards are designed to use very few DRAM chips or dies. Double the RAM and flash and then the cost goes up. They matched Ipad Mini's lowest price at least.
Almost all screenshots look virtually the same save for one example where the lighting was different as if they tweaked a spot light somewhere (art difference not technical)
It's not even like the SNES vs Genesis days or Amiga vs ST, where the graphics were usually similar but a bit different. It's more like comparing a Quake 2 engine game on different computers.. Every computer runs it at full detail (even back in the day, almost) so you're always looking at the same assets. Also, if a big fat GPU only gives you more pixels that look the same.. maybe the pixels aren't worth that much if the consoles are doing it at 900p. Next thing will be to get the smallest and cheapest 4K display you can find, at least an arm length away ; play at a low non native res (even down to 1280x720 which is one third in both axises). Should be looking good enough (add 2x AA or the latest "smart AA") with no scaling artifacts to be seen. A rather cheap GPU (minimum 2GB gddr5) should do. But the biggest annoyance with PC gaming is having to replace CPU, motherboard and RAM just for the games. My 5 year old hardware feels like it's got at minimum another 5 years of life before it, but would probably run crappy new games at 20 fps even with a fat GPU and Windoze.
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Perhaps it's only to maximise the strength while keeping the codes conveniently short. "Less than 2^-18" isn't that great, it's what only 64 bits or slightly less would give (8 bytes, 16 hex characters)
It is potentially a perfect RNG, true randomness is happening there - God plays dice. So, someone somewhere must have had a nerdgasm.
Irradiate the president to authenticate him (can't be replaced by an impostor). Sound fun.
It's not like they can tell much about how the system is designed. But anyway, the article tells all there is to it. Non-descript security system uses a very good hardware random number generator as a source for encryption/signing/whatever. It's like 10 RANDOMIZE TIMER 20 PRINT INT(RND(1)*6)+1 but better. Recent everyday CPUs may use thermal noise from built-in sensors instead.
This is why I wait for a nuclear powered smartphone. Lackluster security and one day of battery life don't cut it
Perhaps a good way to protect the screen is to put it "inside", open the phone like a laptop when you want to use it like a computer, else it looks and works like a dumbphone when folded. The first smartphone was like that (Nokia 9000, 1996)
At 1:1 ratio you maximize the area for a given diagonal. 26.5" 1:1 is much bigger than 27" 16:9.
I thought that in that movie, the aliens were an ancient civilization (apparently much wiser than ours) whose home planet is Earth. They evolved in the depth of the oceans, became an intelligent species and then a technological one. Later on, humanity is busy doing its mankind stuff (war, pillage etc.) but they're unaware of the deep sea "aliens", separated from us by kilometers of water rather than light-years of empty space.
My guess is $1000. It's where some desirable and uncommon high end stuff is priced (30" monitor, GTX Titan, Intel i7 5960X and Eizo monitors in general)
Run Gnome 2 / Mate on it with top and bottom panels, browser that still has a title bar. There's room to fit everything without making it feel busy, cramped. If a smaller 1440x1440 variant was made you would also have something about perfect to run a maximized browser without messing with scaling etc., which I guess is what most people do regardless of the monitor.
This text does not tell what the balloon is inflated with
I'm not so sure. I think it's for esthetical, psychological, branding reason. Windows 9 feels too close to Windows 8.1.1 and it reads "Windows Nein".
Didn't Firefox made their URL bar "dynamic" and shit before Google Chrome existed?, and had search in the URL bar before it itself existed (in the browser called Mozilla). That is enough. It's easy to go to google's site if you want google to guess what you are trying to type.
I don't use Chrome because I would have to change my motherboard to upgrade to 16GB of RAM.
Chromebooks are laptops, so laptops are being replaced by laptops?
Sure, they're more crippled.
Anyway, Firefox OS is about the same thing as Chrome OS, without requirement for a google account.
Oh, and crap. Who cares if there's 100 million or 200 million or 300 million Firefox user, we will still use it. It's dying because it's not 500 million. Right.
They ran on sparc too.
really, a web browser is a run time for running processor and OS independent code.
But the family PC may be a Core 2 Duo alike at 2.4GHz or similar. The framerates are murdered.
If you know what you're doing you can get away with only doubling that budget (low end mobo, Pentium and one 4GB stick)
I upgraded the firmware on a vid card from 2000, which did what I expected (nothing)
I used to play Quake 1 200 years after it came out. The old glquake port still ran flawlessly, arbitrary resolution and you get to max out AA/AF and have instant loading times on any PC (jadd some gamma correction to see shit). What's more, the game is very worth playing. You need higher than 60Hz refresh to play it well. PC gaming has been through a 60Hz dark age, barely broken by a handful overpriced TN monitors.
There may be a non trivial issue if you take on severe exercise and then shortly ingurgitate a lot of water (distilled or poor in salts), which happens after you sweat a lot of electrolytes. But that'd be your own fault for being dumb. Some people do kill themselves with water poisoning, and that's not distilled water.
The fact it is on a bike makes the air move into it.
So much sense that the Xbox One is in fact a dual system, it has a hypervisor with one system for the apps, media, browsing, whatever and one system for the running game.
I'm torn. A PC costs about the price of a console or a bit more if you put an i5 in it (to be sure to meet game specs). But when last gen consoles were introduced a PC lasted about three years, or five if you let it be well outgrown by games. Now a PC lasts for a decade, I'd say easily 15 years if specced midrange. (a quad core with a big SSD, 8GB RAM and two free slots for adding another 16GB, room for making the storage 10x bigger, upgradeable to 10Gbe, sound card or DAC good enough for $5K speakers..)
The problem is when you have to throw away a PC that is a couple year too old for games (or more), but perfectly good for everything else. That sucks. And you could have a linux PC + a console instead of a Windows PC. With both options you lose freedom in order to gain freediom.
Or the astrophysics option is a system with hypervisor, dual graphics card, KVM switch (or dual input monitor) and you run a desktop linux VM on one graphics card, desktop Windows VM on another. It is expensive, you need a high core CPU (I'd say FX 8350, 5820K or 5960X) and a Vt-d motherboard plus adequate case PSU fans etc.
I played the DOS games for the graphics. Lands of Lore, Dungeon Keeper, Doom, Descent, Indiana Jones, Dark Forces, The Dig, Full Throttle. I may end up having to assemble an old PC, have a CD of Windows 98 First Edition (ha!). Dosbox is slow and less straightforward.
There is cost and the mobiles SoCs and boards are designed to use very few DRAM chips or dies.
Double the RAM and flash and then the cost goes up. They matched Ipad Mini's lowest price at least.
Almost all screenshots look virtually the same save for one example where the lighting was different as if they tweaked a spot light somewhere (art difference not technical)
It's not even like the SNES vs Genesis days or Amiga vs ST, where the graphics were usually similar but a bit different. It's more like comparing a Quake 2 engine game on different computers.. Every computer runs it at full detail (even back in the day, almost) so you're always looking at the same assets.
Also, if a big fat GPU only gives you more pixels that look the same.. maybe the pixels aren't worth that much if the consoles are doing it at 900p.
Next thing will be to get the smallest and cheapest 4K display you can find, at least an arm length away ; play at a low non native res (even down to 1280x720 which is one third in both axises). Should be looking good enough (add 2x AA or the latest "smart AA") with no scaling artifacts to be seen. A rather cheap GPU (minimum 2GB gddr5) should do. But the biggest annoyance with PC gaming is having to replace CPU, motherboard and RAM just for the games. My 5 year old hardware feels like it's got at minimum another 5 years of life before it, but would probably run crappy new games at 20 fps even with a fat GPU and Windoze.